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    The 7th annual SCL Awards to Honor the 50th anniversary of “Rocky”

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    Michael Bacon (l) and Kevin Bacon, aka The Bacon Brothers
    HOLLYWOOD, Calif. --

    The 7th annual Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) Awards®, to be held on February 6, will honor the 50th anniversary of Rocky with a special music celebration and performance conducted by Bill Conti, the film’s legendary composer. Conti scored five films in the blockbuster Rocky franchise and composed its iconic theme “Gonna Fly Now” (“Theme from Rocky”) with lyrics by two-time Academy Award-nominated songwriters Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins. The anthemic, Oscar-nominated song, which became a 1977 No.1 Billboard hit and earned two Grammy nominations, remains one of the most universally recognized themes worldwide and one of cinema’s most enduring musical legacies.

    Award-winning actor/musician Kevin Bacon and Emmy-winning composer Michael Bacon (aka The Bacon Brothers) are hosting the SCL Awards, which are being held at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles. The awards show will also feature a special performance by Melissa Manchester.

    This year’s SCL Awards nominees, which were announced on December 17, 2025, include Hollywood’s top composers and lyricists, several of whom have since become Oscar and BAFTA-nominated.

    All five Oscar and BAFTA nominees for Best Original Score are 2026 SCL Awards nominees in the category of Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film: Ludwig Göransson (Sinners), Alexandre Desplat (Frankenstein), Jonny Greenwood (One Battle After Another), Max Richtere (Hamnet), and Jerskin Fendrix (Bugonia).

    EJAE and Mark Sonnenblick (“Golden” from KPop Demon Hunters), 2026 SCL Award nominees for Outstanding Original Song for a Comedy or Musical, are Oscar-nominated for Best Original Song. They recently won both a Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award in the same category.

    Two of the 2026 SCL Awards Nominees for Outstanding Original Song for a Drama or Documentary are Oscar-nominated for Best Original Song. They are Diane Warren (“Dear Me” from Diane Warren: Relentless), and Raphael Saadiq & Ludwig Göransson (“I Lied to You” from Sinners).

    SPIRIT OF COLLABORATION AWARD: Two-time Oscar, BAFTA, Emmy, Golden Globe and GRAMMY Award-winning composer Göransson and director Ryan Coogler will receive the SCL’s Spirit of Collaboration Award, which recognizes a composer/director partnership that has created a significant and enduring body of work. Göransson, who is nominated for three SCL Awards, received a BAFTA nomination for his Sinners score, and two Oscar nominations for the score and the film’s original song “I Lied to You.” The film received 13 BAFTA nominations, and a record number of 16 Oscar nominations, including best director nods for Coogler. Since their first collaboration on Coogler’s Fruitvale Station (2013), Göransson has scored his successful feature films, including Creed (2015), Black Panther (2018), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), and Sinners (2025). Göransson won an Academy Award for Best Original Score for Black Panther and received an Oscar nod for Best Original Song for “Lift Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

    Composer Harry Gregson-Williams accepted the 2025 Spirit of Collaboration Award for his work with director Ridley Scott. Other past award recipients also include the late composer Robbie Robertson & Martin Scorsese, Thomas Newman & Sam Mendes, Terence Blanchard & Spike Lee, Carter Burwell & the Coen Brothers, and Justin Hurwitz & Damien Chazelle.

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    OpenAI pulls the plug on Sora, the viral AI video app that sparked deepfake concerns

    Wednesday, March 25, 2026

    OpenAI is shutting down its social media app Sora, which went viral last fall as a place to share short-form videos generated by artificial intelligence but also raised alarms in Hollywood and elsewhere.

    OpenAI said in a brief social media message Tuesday that it was "saying goodbye to the Sora app" and that it would share more soon about how to preserve what users already created on the app.

    "What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing," it said.

    The company behind ChatGPT released Sora in September as an attempt to capture the attention, and potentially advertising dollars, that follow short-form videos on TikTok, YouTube or Meta-owned Instagram and Facebook.

    But a growing chorus of advocacy groups, academics and experts expressed concern about the dangers of letting people create AI videos on just about anything they can type into a prompt, leading to the proliferation of nonconsensual images and realistic deepfakes in a sea of less harmful "AI slop."

    OpenAI was forced to crack down on AI creations of public figures — among them, Michael Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mister Rogers — doing outlandish things, but only after an outcry from family estates and an actors' union.

    Disney, which made a deal with OpenAI last year to bring its characters to Sora, said in a statement Tuesday that it respects "OpenAI's decision to exit the video generation business and to shift its priorities elsewhere."

    "We appreciate the constructive collaboration between our teams and what we learned from it, and we will continue to engage with AI platforms to find new ways to meet fans where they are while responsibly embracing new technologies that respect IP and the rights of creators," Disney's... Read More

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